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Dylan Corbett

Dylan Corbett is the executive director of the Hope Border Institute located in El Paso, Texas.

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U.S. law enforcement officers in Del Rio, Texas, stand near a young migrant woman bathing in the Rio Grande Sept. 19. (CNS/Reuters/Daniel Becerril)

Treatment of Haitian migrants at border should prick the US conscience

Commentary: The terrifying images of Border Patrol's brute force deployed against families is the most visible manifestation of a violence that occurs every day all along the border under a policy known as Title 42.

Children carry empty water containers inside a migrant encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, Feb. 18, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Daniel Becerril)

Restoring asylum at the border is a holy invitation

Commentary: As people of faith who minister to migrants at the border, we have seen first-hand how fear of the other, fueled by racism and a politics of exclusion, enabled us to turn our back on the most vulnerable.

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